Dear friends and colleagues,
As some of you already know, I have been compiling published sources in English documenting the heritage of Madigas. Several of you have worked with me on this and have contributed your own writing to the collection. Many thanks!
The idea is to make such sources more readily available to Madigas themselves for their own purposes, and to others who are interested in knowing about their often surprising past and present, as well as in thinking about the future that has to be built.
This is to let you know that the sources, mainly from scarce publications, are becoming available on the internet at www.simoncharsley.co.uk/madiga_dalit.html .
It is a work in progress. It needs advice and suggestions if it is to continue to progress. Nothing is complete but much of Part 1, Madigas for Themselves, is now up as a set of linked pages at the address above.
These include:
The Dandora campaign
Roots of Madiga identity
Literature: Madigas writing
Performing arts: Madigas as performers and patrons
The organisation of Madiga life
The Yellamma cult
Mobilising for advancement: the road to Dandora.
Bibliography.
Apart from adding missing sources to these, putting up Part 2, The caste-in-village trap, is the next task. It includes: The village order, 1890s-1990s; Inter-caste rivalry: Madigas and Malas; Anti-caste movements; and Village conflict and atrocities.
I hope you will be interested in at least some of this and will glance at what is there already at www.simoncharsley.co.uk/madiga_dalit.html If you can help in any way, I shall be delighted.
After Part 2, there should be a Conclusion. It is provisionally titled Madiga and Dalit: collaboration, competition and the future. Contributions for this are the single thing most urgently needed at this juncture.
This message is being sent only to people whose email contacts I have. Apologies if you would rather not have received it. Let me know and I’ll make sure you don’t get anything more on this. But if there are others who may be interested, please forward it to them.
With kind regards
Simon Charsley
Hon. Senior Research Fellow,
Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences,
University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Addresses for correspondence:
simoncharsley@yahoo.co.uk
2/1, 55 Cecil Street, Glasgow G12 8RW
Scotland, UK
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